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...community," says Woodhull, which means that today's young Americans may tune in to regular news 10 years down the road. But, she cautions, news outlets "have to lay the groundwork now." Yet, with the exception of a few efforts like the Boston Globe's solid but irritatingly titled Gen X column, "Whatever," newspapers have been slow to reach out to young readers. Television executives, on the other hand, are gung ho. This campaign season, it seems every channel has a new twentysomething on the staff, taking a page from MTV, which began covering politics during the 1992 campaign...
International Relations Council, Board of Directors, Board of Auditors; Harvard Model United Nations, USG Business, Sec-Gen.; Harvard Advocate Magazine, Exec. Board; PBH, Julie's Family Learning Program...
...seem to be. But no one can fault NBC for lack of valiant effort. Dissatisfied with the original pilot for Susan, which had Shields playing an editor of romance books, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield abruptly traded in its creator for producers he thought would make the show more Gen X friendly. Changes required an almost complete recasting this summer. "At the end of the day it was good," said Littlefield to USA Today of the first pilot. "But we wanted great...
Defense Secretary William Perry; Gen. John Shalikashvili, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Army Gen. Binford Peay, head of the U.S. Central Command, spent part of yesterday preparing for today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing...
...York City's Science Fiction Shop. "We're still getting the same people--but now they're 32 and 33." Where have all the teenage gearheads gone? The Web. Nintendo. The Cineplex Odeon. "It's awful, a terrible habit!" says one of Holy Fire's 21st century Gen Xers. "Reading is so bad for you, it destroys your eyes and hurts your posture and makes you fat." How ironic: the gravest threat to science-fiction literature's future is precisely the future its authors predicted...